#store

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#continued #counteract #distant #drawing #enough

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights. ↗

— George B. McClellan

#all-powerful #best #conscious #establish #fervently

And then after a while he got me a job at the video store next door. I used to lock up the store and go next door and hang out all the time and watch movies and stuff. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#door #go #got #hang #i

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope. ↗

— Charles Revson

#drugstore #factory #hope #make #sell

What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking. ↗

— Christina Romer

#compensation #efforts #financial #focused #going

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#books #in the past #past #store #surprises

We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing. ↗

— Jimmy Sangster

#beginning #bring #build #create #creature

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. ↗

— George Santayana

#dignity #grace #his #humility #live

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#media-corruption #rally-to-restore-insanity #media